Using Templates

ZenFlip provides pre-designed templates to help you create polished flipbooks without starting from scratch. Templates apply visual styling, branding presets, and viewer configurations so your publications look professional from the start.

What Templates Include

A ZenFlip template is a collection of visual settings applied to your flipbook viewer. Each template defines:

• Color scheme - Background, accent, and text colors

• Typography - Font selections for the viewer interface

• Layout preferences - Viewer toolbar configuration and display options

• Branding placement - Where and how logos and brand elements appear

Important: Templates style the flipbook viewer experience. They do not alter the content of your PDF pages. Your PDF's layout, text, and images remain exactly as you uploaded them.

Browsing Templates

To explore available templates:

1. From your dashboard, open a publication or create a new one

2. Navigate to the Design tab

3. Click Browse Templates to open the template gallery

The gallery organizes templates into categories:

• Business - Clean, corporate designs suitable for reports, proposals, and presentations

• Creative - Bold, expressive designs for portfolios, magazines, and catalogs

• Minimal - Stripped-down designs that let your content take center stage

• Education - Designs optimized for course materials, handbooks, and training documents

Each template shows a live preview so you can see exactly how it will look with your content.

Applying a Template

1. Browse the template gallery and find one you like

2. Click on the template to see a larger preview

3. Click Apply Template

4. The template's settings are applied to your publication

You'll see the changes reflected in the flipbook preview immediately. Your PDF content remains unchanged - only the viewer styling is updated.

Tip: You can switch templates as many times as you like. Each new template fully replaces the previous one's settings.

Customizing a Template

Templates are a starting point, not a constraint. After applying a template, you can customize any of its settings:

Adjusting Colors

1. Go to the Design tab of your publication

2. Modify the Primary Color, Background Color, or Text Color

3. Your changes override the template's defaults for those specific settings

4. Click Save

Changing Fonts

1. In the Design tab, locate the font settings

2. Select a different font from the dropdown

3. The new font replaces the template's default

Modifying Layout

Adjust toolbar visibility, page number display, and other layout options through the Design tab controls. Any changes you make override the template's defaults.

Templates vs. Custom Branding

Templates and custom branding work together but serve different purposes:

How they interact: If you have global branding set up, applying a template to a specific publication overrides the visual settings (colors, fonts) for that publication only. Your logo and custom domain remain in place from your branding settings.

Creating a Consistent Look

If you publish multiple flipbooks and want them all to share the same look:

1. Apply your preferred template to one publication

2. Customize it until you're satisfied

3. Use the same template for your other publications

4. Alternatively, set up Custom Branding in your global settings to apply a consistent look automatically

Template Availability by Plan

Related Guides

• Custom Branding - Set up global brand identity

• Publication Settings - Configure title, description, and visibility

• Creating Your First Flipbook - Upload and publish your first flipbook